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1、工商管理硕士综合知识-2 及答案解析(总分：85.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B单项选择题/B(总题数：1，分数：85.00)Questions 45 are based on the following:Any person who drops out of high school will be unemployed unless he or she finds a low-paying job or has relatives with good business connections.（分数：85.00）(1).Which one of the following conclus

2、ions CANNOT be validly drawn from the statement above? A. Any person who drops out of high school, will be unemployed, have a low-paying job, or have relatives with good business connections. B. Any high school dropout who has neither a low-paying job nor relatives with good business connections wil

3、l be unemployed. C. Any employed person who has neither a low-paying job nor relatives with good business connections is not a high school dropout. D. Any high school dropout who has a job that is not lowpaying must have relatives with good business connections. E. Any person who has relatives with

4、good business connections and who is not a high school dropout must be employed at a job that is not low-paying.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(2).Assume that Tom is employed and does not have a lowpaying job. Which one of the following statements, when added to this assumption, contradicts the original stateme

5、nt made in the statement above? A. Tom is a high school dropout. B. Tom does not have relatives with good business connections. C. Tom is a high school dropout and does not have any relatives. D. Tom completed high school and has relatives with good business connections. E. Tom has relatives with go

6、od business connections.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(3).Geographers and historians have traditionally held the view that Antarctica was first sighted around 1820, but some sixteenth-century European maps show a body that resembles the polar landmass, even though explorers of the period never saw it. Some sch

7、olars, therefore, argue that the continent must have been discovered and mapped by the ancients, whose maps are known to have served as models for the European cartographers.Which of the following, if true, is most damaging to the inference drawn by the scholars? A. The question of who first sighted

8、 Antarctica in modern times is still much debated, and no one has been able to present conclusive evidence. B. Between 3,000 and 9,000 years ago, the world was warmer than it is now, and the polar landmass was presumably smaller. C. There are only a few sixteenth-century global maps that show a cont

9、inental landmass at the South Pole. D. Most attributions of surprising accomplishments to ancient civilizations or even extraterrestrials are eventually discredited or rejected as preposterous. E. Ancient philosophers believed that there had to be a large landmass at the South Pole to balance the no

10、rthern continents and make the world symmetrical.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(4).REVENUE FOR STORE X DURING WEEK 1（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(5).Bracken, a poisonous weed, is spreading and damaging much pastureland in the Northern Hemisphere. One potentially inexpensive and self-sustaining countermeasure is to intro

11、duce natural enemies of the plant; therefore, some scientists have proposed to control bracken by a release of brackeneating moths native to the Southern Hemisphere into brackeninfested areas in the Northern Hemisphere.If the scientists proposal for controlling bracken is adopted, which of the follo

12、wing is a necessary condition for its success? A. That bracken in the Northern Hemisphere grows in approximately the same climates and soil conditions in which it grows in the Southern Hemisphere. B. That the released moths will feed on weeds other than bracken that are native to the Northern Hemisp

13、here. C. That the livestock that will return to pastures now lost to bracken will develop immunities to the diseases caused by bracken. D. That the released moths will survive in sufficient numbers to build a population large enough to reduce bracken and retard its growth. E. That traditional method

14、s of control, such as burning, cutting, and chemical spraying, will not become less expensive or labor-intensive than they are now.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(6).If this parking policy is unpopular with the faculty, then we should modify it. If it is unpopular among students, we should adopt a new policy. A

15、nd, it is bound to be unpopular either with the faculty or among students.If the statements above are true, which one of the following must alto be tree? A. We should attempt to popularize this parking policy among either the faculty or students. B. We should modify this parking policy only if this

16、will not reduce its popularity among students. C. We should modify this parking policy if modification will not reduce its popularity with the faculty. D. If this parking policy is popular among students, then we should adopt a new policy. E. If this parking policy is popular with the faculty, then

17、we should adopt a new policy.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(7). （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(8).If Mark saved an average (arithmetic mean) of $80 per week for 3 consecutive weeks, how much did he save the second week?(1)The average amount that Mark saved per week for the first 2 weeks was $60.(2)The amount that Mark sa

18、ved the first week was the amount he saved the second week and （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(9).Houses built during the last ten years have been found to contain indoor air pollution at levels that are, on average, much higher than the levels found in older houses. The reason air-pollution levels are higher i

19、n the newer houses is that many such houses are built near the sites of old waste dumps or where automobile emissions are heavy.Which of the following, if true, calls into question the explanation above? A. Many new houses are built with air-filtration systems that remove from the house pollutants t

20、hat are generated indoors. B. The easing of standards for smokestack emissions has led to an increase in air-pollution levels in homes. C. New houses built in secluded rural areas are relatively free of air pollutants. D. Warm-weather conditions tend to slow down the movement of air, thus keeping po

21、llution trapped near its source. E. Pressboard, an inexpensive new plywood substitute now often used in the construction of houses, emits the pollutant formaldehyde into the house.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(10).Our words are meaningless and cannot be distinguished from their opposites, as can be proved by

22、an example. People think that they know the difference between the meanings of “bald“ and “having hair.“ Suppose an average person twentyone years of age has N hairs on his or her head. We say that that person is not bald but has hair. But surely one hair less would make no difference, and a person

23、with N-1 hairs on his or her head would be said to have hair. Suppose we kept on, with one hair less each time. The result would be the same. But what would be the difference between someone who had one hair and someone who had none? We call them both bald. Nowhere can we make a distinction between

24、“bald“ and “having hair.“Which of the following statements best counters the argument above? A. The word “bald“ can be translated into other languages. B. A word can have more than one meaning. C. A word such as “cat“ can be applied to several animals that differ in some respects. D. Words can lack

25、precision without being meaningless. E. People cannot think clearly without using words.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(11).Fares on the city-run public buses in Greenville are subsidized by city tax revenues, but among the beneficiaries of the low fares are many people who commute from outside the city to jobs

26、 in Greenville. Some city councilors argue that city taxes should be used primarily to benefit the people who pay them, and therefore that bus fares should be raised enough to cover the cost of the service.Each of the following, if true, would weaken the argument advanced by the city councillors EXC

27、EPT: A. Many businesses whose presence in the city is beneficial to the citys taxpayers would relocate outside the city if public-transit fares were more expensive. B. By providing commuters with economic incentives to drive to work, higher transit fares would worsen air pollution in Greenville and

28、increase the cost of maintaining the citys streets. C. Increasing transit fares would disadvantage those residents of the city whose low incomes make them exempt from city taxes, and all city councillors agree that these residents should be able to take advantage of city-run services. D. Voters in t

29、he city, many of whom benefit from the low transit fares, are strongly opposed to increasing local taxes. E. People who work in Greenville and earn wages above the nationally mandated minimum all pay the city wage tax of 5 percent.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(12).The major goal of physical education programs

30、 in schools is to help all children become physically fit. But only a small proportion of children ever participate in team sports. Moreover, team sports usually do less to encourage fitness in participants than do physical education programs that focus directly on aerobic exercise.The consideration

31、s above, if true, could be used most effectively to argue against A. the use of in-school physical education programs to encourage lifelong fitness habits in students. B. the participation by young children in community sports teams. C. schools relying heavily on aerobic exercise programs to help al

32、l children become physically fit. D. the use of a large part of a schools physical education curriculum for team sports. E. the use of team sports in schools as an occasional activity for talented athletes.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(13).The toxin produced by certain marine snails contains various proteins,

33、 one of which, when injected into mice, made mice aged two weeks or younger fall asleep and made older mice run for hiding places.When mice are suddenly seriously threatened, very young ones react by staying perfectly still, whereas older ones run away.The facts stated above provide the strongest su

34、pport for which of the following working hypotheses? A. The reaction of mice to sudden, serious threats is triggered by a chemical produced by the body, and this chemical is similar to the protein that was injected into the mice. B. The protein contained in snail toxin that was injected into the mic

35、e ordinarily has the primary function of protecting snails by inducing in those snails complete immobility. C. The protein that was injected into the mice would have made the mature mice fall asleep, too, if they had been injected with larger doses. D. Very young mice are as likely to be exposed to

36、sudden serious threats as are older mice. E. Very young mice are not developed enough to deal appropriately with even the stimuli that they are most likely to encounter.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(14).Todays low gasoline prices make consumers willing to indulge their preference for larger cars, which consum

37、e greater amounts of gasoline as fuel. So United States automakers are unwilling to pursue the development of new fuelefficient technologies aggressively. The particular reluctance of the United States automobile industry to do, so, however, could threaten the industrys future.Which of the following

38、, if true, would provide the most support for the claim above about the future of the United States automobile industry? A. A prototype fuel-efficient vehicle, built five years ago, achieves a very high 81 miles per gallon on the highway and 63 in the city, but its materials are relatively costly. B

39、. Small cars sold by manufacturers in the United States are more fuel efficient now than before the sudden jump in oil prices in 1973. C. Automakers elsewhere in the world have slowed the introduction of fuel-efficient technologies but have pressed ahead with research and development of them in prep

40、aration for a predicted rise in world oil prices. D. There are many technological opportunities for reducing the waste of energy in cars and light trucks through weight, aerodynamic drag, and braking friction. E. The promotion of mass transit over automobiles as an alternative mode of transportation

41、 has encountered consumer resistance that is due in part to the failure of mass transit to accommodate the wide dispersal of points of origin and destinations for trips.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(15). （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(16).An economist concluded that Kregg Company deliberately discriminated against peopl

42、e with a history of union affiliation in hiring workers for its new plant. The economists evidence is that, of the 1,500 people hired to work at the new plant, only 100 had ever belonged to a labor union, whereas in Kregg Companys older plants, a much higher proportion of workers have a history of u

43、nion affiliation.Which of the following is an assumption on which the economists argument depends? A. None of the people with a history of union affiliation who were hired to work at the new plant were union organizers. B. Applicants for jobs at the new plant were not asked by Kreggs recruiters whet

44、her they had every belonged to a labor union. C. In the plants of some of Kreggs competitors, the workforce consists predominantly of union members. D. The company believes that the cost of running the new plant will be lower if labor unions are not represented in the workforce. E. The pool of poten

45、tial candidates for jobs at the new plant included some people, in addition to those Kregg hired, with a history of union affiliation.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.(17).In the course of her researches, a historian recently found two documents mentioning the same person, Erich Schnitzler. One, dated May 3, 1739

46、, is a record of Schnitzlers arrest for peddling without a license. The second, undated, is a statement by Schnitzler asserting that he has been peddling off and on for 20 years.The facts above best support which of the following conclusions? A. Schnitzler started peddling around 1719. B. Schnitzler

47、 was arrested repeatedly for peddling. C. The undated document was written before 1765. D. The arrest record was written after the undated document. E. The arrest record provides better evidence that Schnitzler peddled than does the undated document.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.工商管理硕士综合知识-2 答案解析(总分：85.00，做题时间

48、：90 分钟)一、B单项选择题/B(总题数：1，分数：85.00)Questions 45 are based on the following:Any person who drops out of high school will be unemployed unless he or she finds a low-paying job or has relatives with good business connections.（分数：85.00）(1).Which one of the following conclusions CANNOT be validly drawn fro

49、m the statement above? A. Any person who drops out of high school, will be unemployed, have a low-paying job, or have relatives with good business connections. B. Any high school dropout who has neither a low-paying job nor relatives with good business connections will be unemployed. C. Any employed person who has neither a low-paying job nor relatives with good business connections is not a high school dropout. D. Any high sch